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Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
Paul Polman / Executive
Great
Citizens
Enough
Fall
May
Political
Political Leaders
Support
Rise
Them
Often
Expect
Lead
Give
Meet
Responsibilities
Situations
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Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.
Paul Polman / Executive
Economic
Financial
Forests
Incentives
Natural
Natural Resources
Providing
Resources
Drive
Communities
Conserve
Governments
Local
Precious
Restore
Value
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I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.
Paul Polman / Executive
Leadership
Positive
Energy
Leader
Minutes
Positive Energy
Successful
Ten
Tips
Gives
Subscribe
Ten Minutes
Top Ten
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It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.
Paul Polman / Executive
Bahamas
Compensation
Sailing
Short Term
Five-Year
Translated
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What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
Paul Polman / Executive
Careers
Thinking
Years
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I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass.
Paul Polman / Executive
Compass
Criminality
Ethics
Exposed
Financial
Financial Crisis
Heart
Lessons
Loss
Moral
Moral Compass
Problem
Regulation
Believe Heart I Believe
Collective
Course
Lack
Learned
Rather
Regulatory
Sector
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The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes.
Paul Polman / Executive
Inspiring
Alternatives
Commitment
Deforestation
Determined
Example
Illegal
Illustration
Oil
Partners
Soy
Achieved
Palm
Commodities
Sustainable
For Example
Governments
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My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.
Paul Polman / Executive
Running
Able
Worry
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People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.
Paul Polman / Executive
Levels
People
Salary
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Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.
Paul Polman / Executive
Horse
People
Thinking
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More and more businesses are seeing the potential of a more sustainable business model, driven both by the firm belief that business can be a force for good and by the realization that the cost of inaction often exceeds the cost of action - notably when it comes to the growing threat of climate change and water scarcity.
Paul Polman / Executive
Business
Action
Belief
Climate
Climate Change
Cost
Driven
Firm
Force
Growing
Inaction
Realization
Scarcity
Seeing
Threat
Water
Change Good Business
Both
Business Model
Often
Sustainable
Model
Change Business Good
More And More
Potential
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The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.
Paul Polman / Executive
Running
Business
Environmental
Government
Achieve
Balance
Century
Debt
Earth
Growth
Levels
Massive
Models
Resources
Standards
Good Business Great
Living
Alike
Good Business Government
Billion
Find
Public
Provide
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The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.
Paul Polman / Executive
Fighting
Moving
Self
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At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values.
Paul Polman / Executive
Great Leader
Be True
Foremost
Most Important Thing
Sharing
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If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.
Paul Polman / Executive
Long
Mother
Years
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Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes.
Paul Polman / Executive
Opportunity
Chance
Design
Accompany
Building Blocks
Decades
Drastic
Drastic Change
Energy
Infrastructure
Our Lives
Support
Blocks
Daily
Few
Homes
Trains
Offices
Powers
Ride
Routines
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The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.
Paul Polman / Executive
Jobs
Responsibility
Thinking
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I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.
Paul Polman / Executive
Believe
Opposites
Thinking
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The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.
Paul Polman / Executive
Government
Race
Real
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